The Guys
Millencolin started in october 1992 in the city of Orebro- Sweden by Nikola, Mathias and Erik, at first they used to sang in swedish . Nikola and Mathias played in a band called Seigmenn and Erik in Charles HÂrfager.
They were all skaters and punkers so they decided to began a band similar to operation ivy. At first they were called melancholy but the time moved that name to millencolin.
Just before Larzon joined the band, the first release was made. It was named "goofy". Larzon played in Kung Pung but the band needed 2 guitarrists so Mathias moved to the guitar and Larzon to the drums. Now the band was: Larzon: drums, Nikola: Bass, vocals, Mathias: guitar and Erik: Guitar.
The first tape was called "Melack" recorded at unisound. Burning heart heard that and liked it. Then they recorded this six song cd named ”Use your nose” in 1994. Then "skauch" was released. In August "Tiny Tunes" waas recorded. They started to play a lot in Sweden.
In -95 when Burning Heart moved to Orebro the album ”Life On A Plate” was recorded, it was in august. In october they went to Germany for their first time, they played really good. Then in 1995 Epitaph contacted with Millencolin and released ”Life on a plate” for the US in march 1996. That was a tour year. They toured in US/Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. Almost 150 shows. The "Tiny tunes" change of name and of cover. Now it was called "Same old tunes"
In January 1997 ”For Monkeys” was recorded, april 21 was the release date. A single with three songs (”Lozin' Must” from the album, ”Vixen” a unreleased new song and a cover of Desmond Dekkers ”Israelites”) came out in the end of March. The For Monkeys tour was so cool. It last 1 and a half years and it was in Europe and US/Canada three times, and Japan, South America (Brazil, Argentina) and Australia one time. Almost 200 shows were played
The name of the new CD that millencolin is releasing is "Melancholy Collection". It contains their first two ep:s, all the single b-side songs plus some songs recorded only for compilations, all on one full-length CD. Burning Heart will now quit printing the singles, so if you want to have the singles instead of the 22-song-CD you better hurry up and order them. Release date is the beginning of March -99. This compilation will only be put out on Burning Heart, not by Epitaph.
"MILLENCOLIN AND THE HI-8 ADVENTURES" (the millencolin video)is planned to be released in October/November. Filming is not complete yet. Epitaph will release it in the US and BH in Europe. "The video will include: Live stuff, their four videos, old homemade stuff, tour filming and some skateboarding. The video is mostly filmed by Millencolin and put together by Erik.
A limited CD-single soundtrack with livesongs plus a new version of "Buzzer"(with a minute long endpart which were taken away from the original Life on a Plate mix)will be included in the first 1000 copies.
The world tour of Millencolin is finished. It included three US/Canada and European tours and one Australian, Japanesse and South American(Brazil, Argentina) tours. The band will take a rest then start to record another album and then at last they will think about touring.
